The Trump presidency

Caporegime

Joined:
Oct 18, 2002

Trumps twitter people released a video yesterday for the anniversary of 11/9

It's basically just clips of Trump. Looked more like a bad campaign ad.

The man who boasted that he now had the tallest buildings in Manhattan.
The man who said he would donate $1 million. But didn't.
The man who claimed he helped by assisting the clean up. Nope... try again.
The man who took $140k for non existant damage to trump tower from a fund to assist small businesses post attack.

Oh, and he couldn't shut up for two separate moments of silence yesterday. Talked during both.

Capodecina

Joined:
Oct 18, 2002

America's military centric budget is not sustainable, they are no longer considered the leader of the free world, science is going the way of the dodo, their minimum wage(s) is a joke, the country is becoming more divided, it's beyond corrupt, half the work force earn $30k or less and they are still arguing if healthcare should be a right. The richest country in the world. It's quite startling how Trump is expediting this isolationist regression - at least he's starting to grasp how hate he is.

The deal with the Democrats will hopefully lead to more instances like this but lets not forget the other time the media praised him was the airstrike in Syria (how presidential), so it can go either way.

Mobster

Joined:
Feb 7, 2011

It's Eisenhower, I give you one guess what party he belongs to, it's not Democrats.

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You're thinking of the Korean War. Most of the Vietnam War was under Nixon, who was partially elected in 1968 on a promise to get America out of Vietnam which he never fulfilled (although his VP Gerald Ford did within 12 months of taking over), but it was Lyndon Johnson who got America involved and he was a Democrat. It's the one exception to the rule that Republicans start American wars.

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Jul 29, 2010

Soldato

Joined:
Aug 4, 2007

Anti-Trump protesters in Silicon Valley say Twitter is part of the reason why US president Donald Trump managed to rise to power.

However, Twitter's cofounder Evan Williams doesn't think the social network is to blame.

"It's not Donald Trump using Twitter that got him elected even if he says so...it's the quality of the information being consumed - it's reinforcing dangerous beliefs, isolating people and limiting people's openmindness and respect for truth," he told the Today programme.

"There's a media ecosystem that is supported and thrives on attention, period. That's what's making us all dumber... and Donald Trump is a symptom of that, but it is not his use of Twitter."

Caporegime

Joined:
Jun 28, 2005

"There's a media ecosystem that is supported and thrives on attention, period. That's what's making us all dumber...

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You only have to look at the amount of clickbait news around these days to see that. They'll publish anything if it'll get read and commented on. Comments on news articles are an absolute blight, just endless idiots voicing their ignorances. It's supposed to be news, not a jumping off point for all your rantings and ravings. The news gets skewed towards absolute bilge and then it's really easy to lose perspective on what's actually going on.

Soldato

Joined:
Dec 20, 2004

Anti-Trump protesters in Silicon Valley say Twitter is part of the reason why US president Donald Trump managed to rise to power.

However, Twitter's cofounder Evan Williams doesn't think the social network is to blame.

"It's not Donald Trump using Twitter that got him elected even if he says so...it's the quality of the information being consumed - it's reinforcing dangerous beliefs, isolating people and limiting people's openmindness and respect for truth," he told the Today programme.

"There's a media ecosystem that is supported and thrives on attention, period. That's what's making us all dumber... and Donald Trump is a symptom of that, but it is not his use of Twitter."

Quite amusing really.

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The media realised that while **** and football we're enough to sell papers, what you really need to get clicks and make money in the internet age is outrage and comment sections.

Sgarrista

Joined:
Feb 12, 2006

What's Bernie doing now? Championing a medicare for all bill. Hillary on the other hand is doing a book tour, going over something that is a almost a year old and dishing out the blame.

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so? what's barack obama doing other than destroying trump on twitter with the support he gets over trump? what's george bush doing? what do you expect hilary to be doing right now? what would you expect trump to be doing had he lost?